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LONDON STUDIES: OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: ALL DAY IT RAINED, BUT NOW THE AIR
Last Line: IS GREY AS THESE.
Subject(s): LONDON; RAIN;
ALL day it rained, but now the air
Is clear and fine.
The sunset glow has fallen where
The wet streets shine;
They take the colours of the west,
The gold and rose.
Yet over head, I think, is best,
Where softly glows
A space of luminous tender blue,
But flaked with fire,
As though the perfect peace there knew
A pure desire.
Beneath the fluted columns rise,
With grey, broad frieze;
And every dove that coos and flies
Is grey as these.



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